On April 19, 2026, JMC Department faculty and friends gathered on the first floor of Wilson Hall for the annual celebration of our department’s outstanding seniors, plus several other notable achievements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Department Chair Dr. Kevin Qualls opened the ceremony. Next, each of the Curriculum Coordinators took to the podium to sing the well-deserved praises of this year’s crop of senior superlatives. Award winners included: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2026 Robert J. Norsworthy Outstanding Senior in Advertising<\/em> 2026 Outstanding Senior in Graphic Communications Media<\/em> 2026 Outstanding Senior in Journalism<\/em> 2026 Outstanding Senior in Public Relations<\/em> 2026 Outstanding Senior in Television Production<\/em> 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student<\/em> 2026 PRSSA MVP Award (Most Valuable Professional)<\/em> 2026 KTA (Kappa Tau Alpha) Initiates (Top 10% by GPA):<\/em> Pictured above, right to left: Gretchen Beatty, Jada Poindexter, Charlie Jury, Mackenzie Rogers, Ayden Dick, Dixie Lynn and Natalie Gardner. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On April 19, 2026, JMC Department faculty and friends gathered on the first floor of Wilson Hall for the annual celebration of our department’s outstanding seniors, plus several other notable achievements. Department Chair Dr. Kevin Qualls opened the ceremony. Next, each of the Curriculum Coordinators took to the podium to sing the well-deserved praises of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,14,5],"tags":[18,33,19],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jmc-dept","category-news-notes","category-students","tag-murray-state","tag-murray-state-jmc","tag-outstanding-students","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmcjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Charlie Jury<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elisha Butryn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mackenzie Rogers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jada Poindexter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ayden Dick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dixie Lynn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Natalie Gardner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Top Scholar – Gretchen Beatty 4.0 GPA
Top Scholar – Jada Poindexter 4.0 GPA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n